Phylum Chordata Order Carnivores | Superfamily Aeluroidea Rank Genus | |
Similar Carnivores, Stenoplesictis, Plioviverrops, Cynelos, Ictitherium | ||
Herpestides is an extinct genus of terrestrial carnivore that was endemic to North Africa and Southern Europe during the Early Miocene subepoch (22.4—20 mya) and existed for approximately 2.4 million years.
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Taxonomy
Herpestides was named by de Beaumont (1967). It is not extant. It was assigned to Aeluroidea by Hunt (1989); and to Viverridae by Flynn (1998) and Morlo et al. (2007).
Species
H. aegypticus, H. aequatorialis, H. antiquus, H. compactus
Sister genera
Africanictis, Anictis, Asiavorator, Haplogale, Mioprionodon, Moghradictis, Nandinia, Palaeoprionodon, Proailurus, Shandgolictis, Stenogale, Stenoplesictis.
References
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